Word: maroons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening round of his campaign last week, Brandt boarded a special eight-car maroon train for a whistle-stopping tour through Kassel, the small medieval towns of Eschwege and Northeim, and on to Hanover and Wiesbaden. He assured listeners in the towns bordering East Germany that "each little step toward peace has helped," and prophesied that within a few years families separated by the frontier would soon be able to visit freely again. "We need all the votes we can get," he told the large and enthusiastic crowds. "Help me, my friends." His audiences responded with a chant: "Willy, Willy...
...there were no really high points to the season with the possible exception of the Yale game. The schedule: Oct. 14 Beacon Hill home Oct. 21 Cornell home Oct. 25 Business School A's Away Oct. 26 Business School B & C split Oct. 28 Dartmouth home Nov. 4 Old Maroon (New York) home Nov. 11 Princeton away Nov. 18 Brown home Nov. 25 Yale home
...will go their separate ways, possibly on the bus home retelling just once more the tale they've told a 100 times already: and when its time to hit the crib they'll take off, neatly fold up, and tuck away the fondest memory they've every known--a maroon rowing shirt with a white Harvard...
Terry's only regret in leaving Phoenix was in having to leave behind his Custom Street Machine. "She was beautiful. A maroon falcon sprint jacked up in the back, with meats, and a 427 cu. in. hemi-under-glass mounted in the ashtray...
Treading the Line. Given to dark vested suits and subdued maroon ties, Waldheim is the very model of a Continental diplomat. He is immensely skilled in treading the delicate line of Austrian neutrality, and is known as an unusually hard worker. He is also rather autocratic and hot-tempered, and runs his staff with an iron hand. His chief hobby: collecting early 19th century glass. Waldheim's family is picture-perfect for his new public role. His wife Elisabeth ("Sissy") is justly renowned as a diplomatic hostess. Daughter Liselotte, 26, is a pretty U.N. civil servant in Geneva...